Once-bustling marinas in California's largest lake a few years ago are now bone-dry. Carcasses of oxygen-starved tilapia lie on desolate shores. Flocks of eared grebes and shoreline birds bob up and ...

A unique journey: The voyage presented several safety challenges. Much of the shoreline is inaccessible by vehicle. There's no fresh water. And much of the lake is bordered by marsh, potentially toxic ...

How is California’s rapidly shrinking Salton Sea contributing to dust pollution in the Golden State? This is what a recent study published in Geographies hopes to address as a team of researchers ...

Exposed lakebed continues to dry at the Salton Sea in Salton City Credit: (Photo by RJ Sangosti/MediaNews Group/The Denver Post via Getty Images) In the year 1848, James W. Marshall found gold in ...

This story was originally published by CalMatters. Sign up for their newsletters. Haze hung over the Salton Sea on a recent winter day, while black-necked stilts and kildeer waded in the shallows, ...

CALIPATRIA, CA -Workers remove clay batches while extracting mud from the drilling well at the Controlled Thermal Resources geothermal energy and lithium plant on the south side of the Salton Sea in ...

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Haze hung over the Salton Sea on a recent winter day, while black-necked stilts and kildeer waded in the shallows, pecking at crustaceans. Something else emerged a few steps closer to the lakeshore: a ...